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The Effects of Vitamin C Supplementation on Serum Concentrations of Uric Acid. June 2005, Han-Yao Huang et al. Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT), showing that 500mg/day vitamin C for 2 months reduces blood uric acid, with better reductions for higher uric acid.
Vitamin C can help as a gout treatment, and there are other natural products that can be used as gout cures.
Vitamin C And Uric Acid
The investigation reveals a very important point about vitamin C and uric acid – the higher the starting point, the better the reduction. But even with the benefits of vitamin C, uric acid level is unlikely to drop enough for most gout sufferers.
The investigation breaks the subjects down to many different subgroups, with varying starting levels of uric acid in the blood. Though there are different absolute changes in uric acid, vitamin c achieves a fairly constant percentage reduction of around 10%. In this context, for effective treatment with vitamin c, uric acid needs to start at 5.5mg/dL (0.33mmol/L) for a 10% reduction to achieve a satisfactory target of 5mg/dL (0.30mmol/L). Of course, this might mean that, for higher starting levels of uric acid, vitamin C can make a contribution to a combination treatment program, but you must always get regular blood tests to make sure you stay in the safe zone.
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